Each story is rooted in real local history and landmarks
A child in medieval Visp is woken before dawn on a freezing December night in 1388. They watch as brave defenders creep into the sleeping Savoyard camp and set fire to the tents — and must carry the victory signal across the frozen Rhone to the allied villages.
A child touches the ancient Blauer Stein on St. Martinistrasse and is pulled 15,000 years back to when a glacier deposited the boulder. They journey forward through time at each touch — Neolithic farmers, the 1388 battle, the 1518 fire, the 1855 earthquake — witnessing Visp’s story through the stone’s unblinking eye.
On a summer day in 1855, a child in Visp feels the ground tremble beneath their feet. Reliving the great earthquake, they race through collapsing streets, help neighbours escape falling stones, and watch in awe as new springs burst from the hillside while old ones vanish forever.
A child boards the first Visp-Zermatt train in 1891 and at each station meets a character from a different era: a Roman trader at Stalden, a medieval steward at the Meierturm, a glacier scientist near Zermatt. All are connected by the Vispa river flowing alongside the tracks.
In Visperterminen, a stubborn grapevine keeps growing higher and higher up the mountain, past 1,000 metres, past 1,100, toward the snow line. A child must convince the vine to stop before it reaches the glacier — but the vine has its own plan for the highest wine in Europe.
A child exploring Visp’s old town discovers the door to the Meierturm is unlocked. Inside, each floor reveals a different century — the bishop’s steward dispensing justice in the 13th century, the great fire of 1518 raging outside the windows, and Lonza chemists in white coats on the top floor.
The Matter Vispa and the Saaser Vispa, personified as twin siblings, race from their glacier sources to see who reaches Visp first. Along the way they pass Zermatt and Saas-Fee, collecting stories from mountain villages, before merging at Stalden and arriving in Visp together.
A child discovers the Gamsenmauer near Gamsen and wonders why a wall stretches across the entire valley. Transported to 1355, they help the Zenden communities build the great Letzi stone by stone, and learn that a wall built together protects everyone.
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